Personal reflections, random thoughts, mostly but not exclusively and unintentionally related to Buddhism and the spiritual path.
More specifically, a lot of what is written here is influenced by my practice of Vipassana meditation as taught by S.N. Goenka.

Saturday, December 07, 2013

Spiritual wealth

You sit for an hour in the forest..
you walk a little.
You tell your monk friends `I was thinking of sitting for another hour..but maybe I'll just go home'
And one of them asks you their regular trick question : `so are you going to
choose the way of folding, or choose the way of strong determination'
You meditate with them for another hour.. you're not really sure how much time passed.
You start feeling the pain, together with the emotional pain..
you feel clearly the correlation between the physical discomfort, the emotional discomfort,
and your behavior patterns in critical situations.
You feel how every extra minute, is worth its duration in gold.
Every extra minute sitting with this discomfort, increasing the chances that in those critical moments,
where a situation can lead into disaster or happiness,
you will make the less wrong decision.
You drive from Haifa to Tel-Aviv. Feeling this wealth you have built up inside.
Just watching the view, listening to the same CD..
how in the same situation just a day before you felt like a beggar.